GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ Y SANCHEZ: September 2011

Jurist Politician Diplomat Economist

Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Havana-1919-1934.

Secretary/treasurer-Cuban Society of International Law, 1920.

Legal Counsel to Secretary of State-1925-29

Delegate- VI American International Conference, 1928

Delegate/Technical Counsel-Conference on Conciliation and Arbitrage, Washington-1928

Secretary General-First Pan-American Conference of Municipalities, 1928

Delegate Plenapotentiary-Conference on Trademarks, Washington, 1929

Director of the International American Office for the Protection of Trademarks and Commerce, 1930.

Liberal Party - President-Havana province, 1930

Delegate-IV Pan-American Commercial Conference, Washington, 1931

Secretary of Justice, 1933

Member-House of Representatives, 1938-1942

Technical Advisor-Commission on Foreign Relations for the Senate, 1937

Technical Advisor-Commission for the Study of the New Constitution, 193?

President of the Foreign Relations Commission for the House of Representatives, 1939

Technical Director -Pan-American Commission for Intermuncipalities Cooperation, Chicago-1939

Delegate- VIII American Scientific Congress, Washington-1940

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1940-1941

Cuban delegation head and Sub-Committee President, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Atlantic City, 1943, 1944 and 1945.

G.A.T.T. Chairman Legal Drafting Committee and Tech. Dir., Cuban Delegation) Geneva-1947; (Head of Cuban Delegation) Geneva, Petropolis-1950, 1954.

Head of Cuban delegation, (GATT) Havana Charter, 1948.

President-Junta de Economia de Guerra, 1942.

President-Cuban Maritime Commission, 1942-43.

Ambassador to the United Nations (Security Council)1948.

President-Cuban Delegation, General Assembly, 1949

Technical Director/Secretary/President-National Junta of Economy (Junta Nacional de Economia) 1948-1953.

President-United Nations Economic Committee, 1951.

Minister of Finance (Ministro de Hacienda) 1953-1955.

Special Envoy-O.A.S. Conference of the Presidents, Panama, 1956.

President-Cuban Nuclear Energy Commission, 1956.

President-Ministerial Commission for Tariff Reform, 1958.

Minister of Economy (a.k.a. Ministro Presidente-Consejo Nacional de Economia/National Board of Economy, 1955-1959.

September 18, 2011

Panama Conference/US Foreign Service Dispatches 1956

In August of 1956 President Batista announced that he had named Gustavo Gutiérrez, President/Minister of the National Economic Council (Consejo Nacional de Economia) as his representative on the commission proposed by President Eisenhower to explore means for more effective work by the OAS in economic and social matters. The photograph above shows the many heads of State at this Panama Conference. Gustavo Gutiérrez is to the right of President Eisenhower. Other presidents from Latin America are Juscelino Kubitschek (Brazil), Victor Paz Estenssoro (Bolivia), Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (Mexico), Marcos Perez Jiménez (Venezuela), Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (Argentina), Gustavo Rojas Pinillo, (Colombia), Victor Paz Estenssoro (Bolivia), Jose Figueres Ferrer (Costa Rica), Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra (Ecuador), Oscar Osorio (El Salvador), Carlos Castillo Armas (Guatemala), Paul Magloire (Haiti), Anastasio Somoza (Nicaragua), Alfredo Stroessner (Paraguay), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Luis Battle Berres (Uruguay), Ricardo Arias (Panama).

Below are various US State Department, Foreign Service Dispatches where Gutiérrez is mentioned.